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Oops! I missed your welcome message, so a belated thank you for the helpful links. I'm definitely appreciative of any assistance and feedback / guidance. I look forward to helping to act as a resource for neutral info on our clients, as needed.

Cheers,

Mdrozdowski (talk) 21:46, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

If you are acting on behalf of clients, then by definition you are not neutral. . . Mean as custard (talk) 20:43, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Mean, we do understand that Wikipedia has specific terms of use and conditions. We are trying our best to adhere to those rules, guidelines, and recommendations and will not add anything that does not abide by Wikipedia's rules and guidelines. We do want to act as a resource for information that can be used for Wikipedia entries relating to our clients, and will gladly assist in whatever manner we can. We welcome the scrutiny of and engagement with Wikipedia's editors (and please, please do tell us if we make mistakes - if we do, it's not intentional).

Best regards,

--Mdrozdowski (talk) 13:38, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

OE -

Thanks very much for the insight; I appreciate it. I do understand that we may face questions and possibly challenges from other Wikipedia editors but we do intend to stay strictly within the guidelines, so hopefully, that will help. We also have absolutely no problem engaging in dialog with other editors - that's the only way we can learn and improve our work with Wikipedia.

One more question, if you don't mind? Our earlier Hatteras Networks article is now obsolete, as the company merged with another company called Overture Networks. Overture (now our client) doesn't have a Wikipedia article. I'm not sure what the best strategy is - do we simply update and rename the old Hatteras entry? Or would it be better to start a new Overture article with link from the Hatteras article to the new article? I've been trying to research this but I'm having some difficulty finding anything applicable to this particular situation.

Again, my thanks for your help and for allowing me to pick your brain - much appreciated!

Cheers,

Melissa

--Mdrozdowski (talk) 15:46, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

I think it's better to update the existing article. I already moved it for you to the new title, Overture Networks. "Hatteras Networks" now redirects there. -- œ^™ 18:19, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

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I have now updated (hopefully correctly) the ip.access image file that was uploaded earlier. ip.access has granted Interprose Public Relations explicit permission to use their copyrighted logo as part of the article about the company. If the image file description and tags are still incorrect, we'd be happy to correct any and all deficiencies, if someone can point us in the right direction.

Mdrozdowski (talk) 15:59, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

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Sfan -

Thanks much for letting me know about the image; it will eventually be used in an article but it's taking me a bit longer than I expected it to get all my references together (we have a lot of them) so I haven't been able to get the article published yet. We can re-upload this when I've got it all complete.

Best regards,

Melissa

Mdrozdowski (talk) 10:05, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

I've started a new Sandbox page in order to help practice and refine my editing skills. Work in progress will be posted to this page; please feel free to leave comments, feedback, or suggestions there for me.

Mdrozdowski (talk) 20:50, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

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This has now been corrected and the flag was removed by another editor.

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WikiProject Cooperation

Hi, I thought you might be interested in a WikiProject designed to help editors with a conflict of interest learn and have a better experience on the site. It's been up and running for a few weeks now, but is really just getting momentum. If you're interested, WikiProject Cooperation is the place. Cheers! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 05:45, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Re: WikiProject Cooperation

Ocaasi -

Oooh, thank you for that info. I'd love to check out this WikiProject, as learning more about how to be more effective would be great. I'll definitely check it out and I appreciate the heads-up.

Cheers,

Mdrozdowski (talk) 13:44, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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Since there's currently 163 members, I don't know if you're a part of the group already or not offhand, so i'll just ask, have you heard of the Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement (CREWE) Facebook group? There's a lot of people with similar jobs to yours that are working together to both interact more transparently and openly with Wikipedia and to educate other PR people and corporations in general on how to properly become engaged with Wikipedia (a la not Bell Pottinger). I just thought you'd like to know about the group, in case you'd like to join. I'm Sterling Ericsson over there. Silverseren^C 15:32, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

I actually just requested membership today. I'm definitely interested in joining and contributing! Mdrozdowski (talk) 15:37, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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I read your sandbox and placed some comments on it here. Kilopi (talk) 21:16, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Patents etc.

Your source is independent, but still a primary source. I get the terminology confused sometimes and may not have written exactly what I meant. Wikipedia:Secondary does not mean independent explains it better than I did. As I said earlier, I won't be removing that section. If anything, I'd prefer to see it expanded and don't consider removing that info to be a useful intermediate step. For an example of an article that does this well, see Johnson & Johnson#Litigation. It tells the reader not only that JNJ patents stuff, but that at least two of those patents are both economically important and legally enforceable.

I may try to search for more sources and add to it later. I found some reports of a lawsuit with WiLAN, but it doesn't look too useful. Patent trolls sue everybody, so getting sued by one doesn't say much about Sierra. It's good enough for now, just a bit underwhelming. When a company spends $60 mil/yr on R&D, I'd expect they could say a lot of very interesting things about their patents beyond just counting them! Kilopi (talk) 08:11, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you, my good bot. We've fixed the error and the help is much appreciated. Mdrozdowski (talk) 12:41, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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Sorry that was my mistake. I was editing on my mobile phone and sometimes a button gets pressed by accident. I will be more mindful in the future. Thanks and happy editing! Tinton5 (talk) 05:03, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

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Hello! I am the person who created and submitted Kelly David Brownell article for review and publishing. My original intent was to update the existing Kelly D. Brownell article with my proposed edits. I submitted my revisions to Wikipedia:Articles for creation for review, thinking there would be corrections I needed to work in but the page was approved and published, leading to two separate articles about Kelly Brownell.

This error is entirely my fault and I apologize for the mistake. As per discussion on the Talk page of the existing article, a merge was suggested. As per the discussion, I've gone ahead and updated that existing article with the revisions from the second article. I'm not sure if I now need to request speedy deletion of this article, but am working to find out how to best proceed.

Again, my apologies for the error and the confusion it has caused.

Mdrozdowski (talk) 13:46, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

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A cheeseburger for you!

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Wow, thank you! I'm flattered and I appreciate it. :)

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Despite the statement on the user page about "stringently adher[ing] to all editing guidelines, including NPOV and citation requirements", Draft:March Networks was native advertisement full of promotional language, unsourced statements, unreliable sources and even misrepresented sources. Huon (talk) 14:22, 25 September 2018 (UTC)